slough
sluff

There are several named sloughs both east and west of the visitor center.

But from now on there were a good many scattered sloughs or pools, and water would not be so hard to come by.

The light our antecedents crawled out of the sloughs to get away from.

Back then, the club played on ponds and sloughs.

Numerous sloughs mark the southern end of the island.

It was considered challenging to develop - the area is dotted with sloughs and has a high water table.

The train then heads out into the mudflats and sloughs of the bay.

This whole world is full of such sloughs.

Erosion is a common phenomenon in the river valley; there are many lakes and sloughs.

It fell on the tractor sheds and the labyrinth of sloughs.

In the number of two hundred the men came down the sloughs and swam out to surround the shallows.

He would return to his sloughs and mangroves happily.

The land has several bald cypress sloughs or swamp.

In essence, sloughs are the broad, shallow rivers of the Everglades.

It is made up of various streams, creeks, lakes, and sloughs.

The nest is lined with grass, feathers and sometimes snake sloughs.

To the south, farmland gave way to the sloughs of Ryan's Bay.

Every spring brought flooding; families were driven from their homes; children walked to school through mud sloughs.

This grass grows in coastal habitat, such as marsh land and sloughs.

Sloughs are important refuges for aquatic wildlife during these dry periods.

Numerous sloughs, bayous and lakes are located on the refuge.

Duck hunting as well is popular in the waterfront sloughs and swamps to the north.

There were small fish in abundance in the sloughs.

Instead, a series of small sloughs cause seasonal water-flows among the so-called islands.

They named him for the city of Seattle and the sloughs which loggers once used to transport heavy logs.